Would You Drink a Bacon Milkshake?

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The discussion centers around the controversial concept of a Bacon Shake, which combines vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, a maraschino cherry, and bacon-flavored syrup—lacking actual bacon. Many participants express strong disapproval, arguing that sweet and salty flavors should not mix, particularly in desserts. Some mention the addictive nature of bacon and similar fatty foods, drawing comparisons to cocaine's effects on the brain. Others share their experiences with various bacon-flavored products, like bacon-flavored cheese popcorn and bacon coffee, often with disgust. Despite the negative reactions, a few participants are open to trying the Bacon Shake, suggesting that salty-sweet combinations can be enjoyable. The conversation highlights a divide between food purists who prefer traditional flavor pairings and those willing to experiment with unconventional food combinations.
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No, No and hell no. Sweet should be sweet, meat should be meat. I am a food purist. But I *KNOW* we have members that would drink this. Admit it!

The Bacon Shake consists of vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, a maraschino cherry and "bacon flavored syrup." Based on the ingredients-sugar, preservatives, artificial flavors, a whole lot of salt-there's not an ounce of actual bacon in there.

<snip> One theory behind the cult of bacon: it's addictive. A recent study found that fatty foods like cheesecake, frosting and, yes, bacon, had a similar effect on the brain's pleasure center as cocaine. In an experiment on rats, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute found that overindulging on bacon releases the brain's 'feel-good' neurotransmitter, dopamine.

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Hell no! It's sounds disgusting.
 
Bacon and milk together. I might have one just to spite my ancestors.
 
Evo said:
I'd eat baconaise.
aaaaaand that's our friendship over.




JUST KIDDING! :biggrin: But yuck.
 
That sounds absolutely disgusting! Bacon is salty and salty doesn't belong in sweet ice cream.

One of my friends also found "bacon-flavored cheese popcorn" in the microwave popcorn section of the local grocery store. That sounded pretty awful too, mostly because it was very clearly "bacon flavor" not actual bacon, but there are SOME things that aren't better with bacon.
 
Moonbear said:
One of my friends also found "bacon-flavored cheese popcorn" in the microwave popcorn section of the local grocery store. That sounded pretty awful too, mostly because it was very clearly "bacon flavor" not actual bacon, but there are SOME things that aren't better with bacon.
Ah well, I sometimes eat bacon-flavored cheese puffs, quite tasty :smile:

I can't imagine a bacon milkshake, the same for bacon-flavored vodka or toothpaste..
http://bakonvodka.com/
http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/Bacon-Toothpaste.html
 
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I was watching a food show the other day and there is a cafe that sells bacon coffee. They stir a teaspoon of bacon grease into a cup of coffee.
 
  • #10
Moonbear said:
That sounds absolutely disgusting! Bacon is salty and salty doesn't belong in sweet ice cream.

One of my friends also found "bacon-flavored cheese popcorn" in the microwave popcorn section of the local grocery store. That sounded pretty awful too, mostly because it was very clearly "bacon flavor" not actual bacon, but there are SOME things that aren't better with bacon.

Are you kidding? Salty/sweet combinations are the best. I would definitely try it out.
 
  • #11
Moonbear said:
salty doesn't belong in sweet ice cream.

Ben and Jerry's "Chubby Hubby" ice cream has pretzel chunks in it. It's been long enough since I had it that that I don't remember if there was any salt on the pretzel chunks.
 
  • #12
One theory behind the cult of bacon: it's addictive. A recent study found that fatty foods like cheesecake, frosting and, yes, bacon, had a similar effect on the brain's pleasure center as cocaine.
I love it when they phrase things like this.

It's like saying "a recent study found that stubbing one's toe had a similar effect on the brain's pain centre as being in a car accident".

(Wow, stubbing your toe should avoided at all costs!)
 
  • #13
Nope
 
  • #14
Moonbear said:
acon is salty and salty doesn't belong in sweet ice cream.
My grandmother used to put salt on watermelon.
 
  • #15
Jimmy Snyder said:
My grandmother used to put salt on watermelon.
apparently that is how people are supposed to have watermelon back when my father was a teenager
 
  • #16
Jimmy Snyder said:
My grandmother used to put salt on watermelon.

wukunlin said:
apparently that is how people are supposed to have watermelon back when my father was a teenager

I ate watermelon like this until I was 15. I'm now 20 and have realized it's unnecessary. I think I started doing it because that's the way my parents eat it.
 
  • #17
Only if its turkey or veggie bacon. I don't eat pork.
 
  • #18
Topher925 said:
Only if its turkey or veggie bacon. I don't eat pork.
It's not meat based, it's imitation flavoring.
 
  • #19
Yes, I'd at least try it. Sounds interesting.
 
  • #20
Moonbear said:
there are SOME things that aren't better with bacon.


can you provide references for that claim?
 
  • #21
Pythagorean said:
can you provide references for that claim?
Apparently, chocolate chip cookies are not better with bacon.

I mean, I liked them, but the recipients who got a gift bag of them for Christmas from my wife weren't as taken with them as I was.
 
  • #22
My wife makes liver-and-bacon cookies for Duke, and he flips for them. Not surprising, since I love liver and onions fried in bacon-fat, and he's "my" boy. Still the idea of bacon-flavored shakes is off-putting.

I'd be adventurous enough to top a sundae with some crumbled bits of bacon (instead of jimmies) just to give it a whirl, I guess. If it was not tasty, I could at least give it to Duke. He'd love that experiment.
 
  • #23
That would be nasty lol
 
  • #24
No, I don't even like bacon. :shy:
 
  • #25
BloodyFrozen said:
No, I don't even like bacon. :shy:

Alien from Planet Earth.
 
  • #26
I spent a lot of time consulting in the Deep South, and if you don't like bacon (or at least sausage gravy), you can starve trying to eat in those rural diners. It's like the Monty Python Spam skit. Their biscuits are cakey, poor cousins to the nice flaky pastry biscuits we get around here, but it doesn't matter all that much, because the servers will drown the "biscuits" in sausage gravy or bacon gravy anyway.
 
  • #27
BloodyFrozen said:
No, I don't even like bacon. :shy:

You barbarian!
 
  • #28
Evo said:
No, No and hell no.
Or just a simple uh uh. I like my bacon as ... bacon. I'll not be drinking that type of milkshake. What's next? Liver milkshakes?
 
  • #29
DaveC426913 said:
Apparently, chocolate chip cookies are not better with bacon.

I mean, I liked them, but the recipients who got a gift bag of them for Christmas from my wife weren't as taken with them as I was.

Must have used the wrong recipe. Try this recipe for the Six Degrees of Bacon Cookies instead.

Using this recipe, I spent an evening bakin' Bacon bacon cookies. That's even fun to say!

Not to mention that they taste great!

This recipe originally was originally developed by Kevin Bacon's aunt. While Kevin Bacon and John Belushi were filming "Animal House", Kevin's aunt shared the recipe with Belushi's girlfriend. While Belushi was filming "Blues Brothers", his girlfriend shared this recipe with Ray Charles. And, when Ray Charles ran over a homeless person in his SUV, he visited the guy he ran over and shared this recipe with him. And then, years later, I tossed 3 dollars and change into the tin cup of the blind, crippled, homeless person and he showed his gratitude by sharing this recipe with me!
 
  • #30
Evo said:
No, No and hell no. Sweet should be sweet, meat should be meat. I am a food purist.

Wait a minute! :eek:

Are you saying you wouldn't eat meat with barbecue sauce on it, or brown-sugar marinades? No honey glazes on chicken? No glazed meatloaf?
 
  • #31
Evo said:
. . . "bacon flavored syrup" . . .
WT* is "bacon flavored syrup"?! Is that like "bacon flavored corn syrup"?!


I'd drink a Guinness shake, or actually, a Guinness float, and not the Guinness that is made in Canada, but the real Irish-made Guinness. There are probably many Stouts and Porters that are much better, but that's another topic.
 
  • #32
Pythagorean said:
Are you saying you wouldn't eat meat with barbecue sauce on it, or brown-sugar marinades? No honey glazes on chicken? No glazed meatloaf?
I will eat non-sweet barbecue sauce, and a definite NO to the others.
 
  • #33
Astronuc said:
I'd drink a Guinness shake, or actually, a Guinness float, and not the Guinness that is made in Canada, but the real Irish-made Guinness. There are probably many Stouts and Porters that are much better, but that's another topic.
Do you mean a Guinness bacon shake? Actually, that doesn't sound too bad.
 
  • #34
edit: bleh double negatives >.<

I love bacon!

I will drink this milkshake!
 
  • #35
BobG said:
Six Degrees of Bacon Cookies.
I see what the problem is. You're bakin' cookies at 6 degrees.
 
  • #36
Pythagorean said:
Wait a minute! :eek:

Are you saying you wouldn't eat meat with barbecue sauce on it, or brown-sugar marinades? No honey glazes on chicken? No glazed meatloaf?

I'm with Evo on this. I'm very picky about bbq sauce because most are disgustingly sweet. I like spicy, tangy sauce with minimal sweet. No honey glazes on any meat. I don't know why people glaze hams at all...again, very salty, smoked meat doesn't go with sticky sweet. Glazed meatloaf? Is that meant to be some kind of punishment? I don't even like meatloaf...overcooked hamburger is horrible, and trying to drown it in sauces could only make it worse. I think most people drown meat in sauces because they overcook it and are trying to moisturize it after it's ruined.
 
  • #37
Another big NO to using sweet BBQ sauces. The local fire-chief loves to put on fund-raising chicken BBQ dinners for the fire department and the VFW (he's the chapter president), and he sprays the chicken-parts with a mix of oil, vinegar, and water, with powdered mustard while they are cooking. I forget the exact proportions, but it's a simple recipe and I have it copied down somewhere. They never have tomato-based sauces available, and nobody complains - that chicken is tasty. Get yourself a side of 'slaw, and you're all set.
 
  • #38
Has anyone ever bought a bacon burger and a milkshake? Given that one normally eats while taking drinks from a shake, how is this different? It is just premixed.
 
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  • #40
Ivan Seeking said:
Has anyone ever bought a bacon burger and a milkshake? Given that one normally eats while taking drinks from a shake, how is this different? It is just premixed.

I actually haven't done that. I get milk shakes usually as a dessert or a treat by themselves, not as the beverage with my meal. Still, even if I would sip one and bite the other, I don't think I'd be dunking my burger into it.
 
  • #41
Moonbear said:
I actually haven't done that. I get milk shakes usually as a dessert or a treat by themselves, not as the beverage with my meal. Still, even if I would sip one and bite the other, I don't think I'd be dunking my burger into it.

Just bite and sip! It all mixes. :biggrin:

Right before my blood sugar went crazy, on Fridays we used to get bacon-cheeseburgers and shakes, at work. Mmmmmmmm. Portland has a lot of great restaurants, including some fantastic burger places. My favorite was the "Neon" blue-cheese bacon burger. Give me one of those with a chocolate shake and I'd be helpless to stop myself; until I passed out!
 
  • #42
"quit whining, it all mixes in your stomach anyway"

-my grandpa (RIP) whenever we complained about him serving ice cream on our dinner plates.
 
  • #43
I'm still trying to get over my wife serving a Reisling with the chateaubriand last week.
 
  • #44
Jimmy Snyder said:
I'm still trying to get over my wife serving a Reisling with the chateaubriand last week.
Heathen! Is she from China or something?
 
  • #45
I've thrown up the milkshake burger combo - it was truly nasty. YUKK
do you have any idea how hard it is to find things with NO sugar in them. There is sugar in ham, most bacon, sausage, nearly all barbeque sauces, almost everything has sugar in it. Green curry has sugar in it although less than other currys. Sweet barbecue beans are sooo disgusting. Steak houses actually coat steaks with sugar as well as salt before they grill them (came from a chef at a steak house)

Now baconaisse I could deal with.
 
  • #46
Bacon milkshake is delicious but you need an extra wide straw to get the chunks of bacon up.

It's been on the menu forever at B-spot which is Michael Symon's gourmet burger chain.
 
  • #47
Evo said:
No, No and hell no. Sweet should be sweet, meat should be meat. I am a food purist. But I *KNOW* we have members that would drink this. Admit it!

Agreed. I tried a bacon chocolate-chip cookie once and was not impressed.

Moonbear said:
salty doesn't belong in sweet ice cream.

Unless it's homemade ice-cream and got in there by accident.

jtbell said:
Ben and Jerry's "Chubby Hubby" ice cream has pretzel chunks in it. It's been long enough since I had it that that I don't remember if there was any salt on the pretzel chunks.

Ben and Jerry's is always the exception to the rule. As a rule, I don't eat ice cream... but almost ANY Ben and Jerry's (and the "Homemade" brand with peanut-butter) will make me cave in.

Jimmy Snyder said:
My grandmother used to put salt on watermelon.

This is to "bring the juices out"... like salting tomatoes, or putting sugar on strawberries.
 
  • #48
Ivan Seeking said:
Has anyone ever bought a bacon burger and a milkshake? Given that one normally eats while taking drinks from a shake, how is this different? It is just premixed.

But in that case why not eat vomit?
 
  • #49
BobG said:
Must have used the wrong recipe. Try this recipe for the Six Degrees of Bacon Cookies instead.

Using this recipe, I spent an evening bakin' Bacon bacon cookies. That's even fun to say!

Not to mention that they taste great!

This recipe originally was originally developed by Kevin Bacon's aunt. While Kevin Bacon and John Belushi were filming "Animal House", Kevin's aunt shared the recipe with Belushi's girlfriend. While Belushi was filming "Blues Brothers", his girlfriend shared this recipe with Ray Charles. And, when Ray Charles ran over a homeless person in his SUV, he visited the guy he ran over and shared this recipe with him. And then, years later, I tossed 3 dollars and change into the tin cup of the blind, crippled, homeless person and he showed his gratitude by sharing this recipe with me!

Well, okay... this might be the exception to the cookie-bacon rule. That candied-bacon prep looks good... and resembles a great salmon-thig we do. and if that story of yours is true... well, Blues Brother's fame expands again...
 
  • #50
I can personally confirm that bacon and vanilla ice cream are delicious together.
 

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